Calendar

CALENDAR

4.1    Introduction Samolsky
4.2    Introduction Ghosh

4.8    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
4.10    Conrad continued.

4.15    Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost
4.17    Ondaatje continued.
Thomas Laqueur, “Names, Bodies, and the Anxiety of Erasure” (CR)

4.22    Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You
4.24    Gourevitch continued.

4.29    Mani Ratnam, Dil Se
Sumita Chakrabarty, “Fragmenting the Nation” (CR)
Recommended: Corrigan
5.1    Mahasweta Devi, “Strange Children” (CR)
Critical Paper 1 or 2 due.

5.6    J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
5.8    Coetzee continued.

5.13    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
5.15    Roy continued.

5.20    Antjie Krog, The Country of My Skull
5.22    Krog continued.

5.27    Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief” (CR)
5.29   Amitav Kumar, “Flight” (CR)
Excerpts from Arundhati Roy’s “Come September” (shown in class)
Recommended: Bishnupriya Ghosh, “Tallying Bodies” (CR)
Critical Paper 3 or 4 due.

6.3    Gavin Hood, Tsotsi
6.5    X-files (“Badlaa”)
News excerpts “Revisting the Bhopal Tragedy” (CR)
“Bhopal Tragedy; the story so far” (CR)

Final Paper due June